iSkin Biometric Tattoos That Can Control Your Smart Phone

iSkin Biometric tattoo may soon mean you will soon be able to control your iPhone by stroking your tattoos!

A new sensor means that users will be able to control smartphones by stroking their tattoos – turning skin itself into a sensor.

The iSkin system is made of biocompatible silicone rubber with pressure-sensitive sensors which are stuck to users’ skin.

Designed by scientists at the Max Plank Institute, iSkin could be stuck to fingers, forearms or even behind people’s ears.

Developer Martin Weigel says, ‘Current electronics are mostly using rigid components which are very uncomfortable to wear on the body and are limiting the locations to, for example, the wrist or on the head to be worn.

‘But our sensor is a flexible and stretchable sensor, so it can cover many locations. For example, even the backside of the ear or the forearm. So, we have a much larger input space than current electronics allow for.’